Dr. ANTONIO \u0160IBER
Institute of Physics, Zagreb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Monday, December 20, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lecture Hall, Wing I, Ru\u0111er Bo\u0161kovi\u0107 Institute, Bijeni\u010dka 54, Zagreb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Viruses are functional complexes of nucleic acids and proteins and although they are rarely considered as parts of the living world, they belong to it because their function and \u201cmeaning\u201d are realized only within a living cell. Outside the cell, viruses can be viewed as independent physical systems whose stability is determined by interactions typical of biophysical systems (van der Waals, electrostatic interactions, hydrophobic \u201cinteractions\u201d, \u2026). Viruses are therefore a well-defined and relatively simple system suitable as a prototype for studies of interactions in \u201cliving matter\u201d. The lecture will be a concise overview of the physics of viruses. This is a field of research that has been developing intensively in the last ten years, although its history is longer than sixty years (see, for example, Ernest C. Pollard, The physics of viruses, Academic Press Inc., New York, 1953).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*Seminar of the Croatian Biophysical Society<\/p>\n\n\n\n